| ball | noun (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. |
| | noun (n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. |
| | noun (n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets. |
| | noun (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball. |
| | noun (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller. |
| | noun (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. |
| | noun (n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. |
| | noun (n.) The globe or earth. |
| | noun (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. |
| | noun (n.) A pitched ball, not struck at by the batsman, which fails to pass over the home base at a height not greater than the batsman's shoulder nor less than his knee. |
| | verb (v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls. |
| | verb (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. |
| | verb (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. |
| call | noun (n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. |
| | noun (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
| | noun (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
| | noun (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. |
| | noun (n.) A divine vocation or summons. |
| | noun (n.) Vocation; employment. |
| | noun (n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. |
| | noun (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
| | noun (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
| | noun (n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry. |
| | noun (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. |
| | noun (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
| | noun (n.) See Assessment, 4. |
| | verb (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. |
| | verb (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. |
| | verb (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. |
| | verb (v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. |
| | verb (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. |
| | verb (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. |
| | verb (v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken. |
| | verb (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. |
| fall | noun (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. |
| | noun (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. |
| | noun (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. |
| | noun (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. |
| | noun (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol. |
| | noun (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. |
| | noun (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. |
| | noun (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. |
| | noun (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. |
| | noun (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. |
| | noun (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. |
| | noun (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. |
| | noun (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. |
| | noun (n.) The act of felling or cutting down. |
| | noun (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. |
| | noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. |
| | noun (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. |
| | verb (v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. |
| | verb (v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. |
| | verb (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. |
| | verb (v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. |
| | verb (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. |
| | verb (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. |
| | verb (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. |
| | verb (v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. |
| | verb (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. |
| | verb (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive. |
| | verb (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. |
| | verb (v. t.) To belong or appertain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. |
| | verb (v. t.) To let fall; to drop. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. |
| | verb (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. |
| gall | noun (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. |
| | noun (n.) The gall bladder. |
| | noun (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. |
| | noun (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance. |
| | noun (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut. |
| | noun (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. |
| | verb (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. |
| | verb (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. |
| | verb (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer. |
| hall | noun (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. |
| | noun (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. |
| | noun (n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. |
| | noun (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building. |
| | noun (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. |
| | noun (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). |
| | noun (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. |
| | noun (n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. |
